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Jasper Rees

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Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins

Articles By Jasper Rees

The Other Guys

Saturday, 18 September 2010 Read more...

Truth and Lies: Jillian Edelstein on Show

Thursday, 16 September 2010 Read more...

František Vláčil Season at the BFI

Tuesday, 14 September 2010 Read more...

The Last Night of the Proms, BBC One: The Twitter Review

Saturday, 11 September 2010 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Actor Michael Sheen

Saturday, 11 September 2010 Read more...

Complicite and the Mozart and Salieri of Maths

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 Read more...

Sarah Willis, First Lady of the French Horn

Thursday, 02 September 2010 Read more...

I Am Slave, Channel 4

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 Read more...

Tuscany is Ready for Her Close-Up

Monday, 30 August 2010 Read more...

The Curse of Cruise: When Co-Stars Vanish

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 Read more...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Sunday, 22 August 2010 Read more...

Shakespeare's Sitcom: Merry Wives Return to The Globe

Saturday, 14 August 2010 Read more...

The Secret in Their Eyes

Thursday, 12 August 2010 Read more...

Music, The Deaf and David Mellor

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 Read more...

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Monday, 02 August 2010 Read more...

Stealing Shakespeare, BBC One

Friday, 30 July 2010 Read more...

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